Obama Claims Fish Are Swimming Through the Middle of Miami's Streets

Climate change and rising sea levels are very real threats, but there's no need to be hyperbolic about it. "Hey, large portions of highly populated land could go completely under water in the next few centuries," seems alarming enough to us.

Yet, while speaking at a new conference during the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris yesterday, President Barack Obama made an odd claim about Miami: There there's fish swimming in our streets.

"You go down to Miami, and when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day and fish are swimming through the middle of the streets, you know, there's a cost to that," said the president.

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Except, um, has anyone here actually seen fish swimming through the streets at high tide?

There's enough dire evidence to point to without making fishy claims. I mean, how am I supposed to tell my racist uncle to check his facts before he posts conspiracy articles on Facebook when we've got the president talking about fish swimming down Collins Avenue?

Then again, claiming fish are swimming in the streets of Miami pales in comparison to politicians who deny climate change is happening at all.